Medievalists.net » Gerald of Wales http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 03:31:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Irish Hagiographical Lives in the Twelfth Century: Church Reform before the Anglo-Norman Invasion http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/irish-hagiographical-lives-twelfth-century-church-reform-anglo-norman-invasion/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/irish-hagiographical-lives-twelfth-century-church-reform-anglo-norman-invasion/#comments Sun, 07 Sep 2014 22:37:08 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52403 In order to further disentangle the reality and fiction of this view of culture versus barbarity and of reform versus wickedness, I shall analyse twelfth-century Irish vitae.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/irish-hagiographical-lives-twelfth-century-church-reform-anglo-norman-invasion/feed/ 0 Rhetoric and Ethnicity in Gerald of Wales http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/03/rhetoric-and-ethnicity-in-gerald-of-wales/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/03/rhetoric-and-ethnicity-in-gerald-of-wales/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 14:02:06 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40908 This paper was given at the 2013 Celtic Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting at the University of Toronto.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/03/rhetoric-and-ethnicity-in-gerald-of-wales/feed/ 0 Expectations of empire: some twelfth- and early thirteenth-century English views of what their kings could do http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/08/expectations-of-empire-some-twelfth-and-early-thirteenth-century-english-views-of-what-their-kings-could-do/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/08/expectations-of-empire-some-twelfth-and-early-thirteenth-century-english-views-of-what-their-kings-could-do/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:14:49 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36358 In this paper I shall try to see what the ways in which a number of twelfth- and early thirteenth-century English authors interpreted the past might reveal about their assumptions about the reach of the king’s government.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/08/expectations-of-empire-some-twelfth-and-early-thirteenth-century-english-views-of-what-their-kings-could-do/feed/ 0 Toward a New History of Medieval Theatre: Assessing the Written and Unwritten Evidence for Indigenous Performance Practices http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/31/toward-a-new-history-of-medieval-theatre-assessing-the-written-and-unwritten-evidence-for-indigenous-performance-practices/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/31/toward-a-new-history-of-medieval-theatre-assessing-the-written-and-unwritten-evidence-for-indigenous-performance-practices/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:45:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=23543 Toward a New History of Medieval Theatre: Assessing the Written and Unwritten Evidence for Indigenous Performance Practices Symes, Carol (Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Société Internationale pour l’étude du Théâtre Médiéval XIIe Congrès – Lille, 2-7 juillet (2007) Abstract “Medieval drama” is essentially an invention of modern philology, which drew upon the models […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/31/toward-a-new-history-of-medieval-theatre-assessing-the-written-and-unwritten-evidence-for-indigenous-performance-practices/feed/ 0 Gerald of Wales and the Angevin Kings http://www.medievalists.net/2011/05/22/gerald-of-wales-and-the-angevin-kings/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/05/22/gerald-of-wales-and-the-angevin-kings/#comments Sun, 22 May 2011 19:40:43 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=20961 Gerald of Wales and the Angevin Kings Steele, Helen Published Online (2006) Abstract On the 10th of November 1203, Silvester Giraldus Cambrensis attended a meeting at Westminster Abbey in London at which Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, announced the selection of Geoffrey de Henelawe as Bishop of the See of St David’s. Although five years […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/05/22/gerald-of-wales-and-the-angevin-kings/feed/ 0 Looking East and West : the reception and dissemination of the Topographia Hibernica and the Itinerarium ad partes Orientales in England [1185-c.1500] http://www.medievalists.net/2011/04/10/looking-east-and-west-the-reception-and-dissemination-of-the-topographia-hibernica-and-the-itinerarium-ad-partes-orientales-in-england-1185-c-1500-2/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/04/10/looking-east-and-west-the-reception-and-dissemination-of-the-topographia-hibernica-and-the-itinerarium-ad-partes-orientales-in-england-1185-c-1500-2/#comments Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:41:12 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=19466 Looking East and West : the reception and dissemination of the Topographia Hibernica and the Itinerarium ad partes Orientales in England [1185-c.1500] David, Sumithra J. PhD Thesis, University of St. Andrews, 4th March (2008) Abstract In this study the manuscript transmission, dissemination and reception of Gerald of Wales’ Topographia Hibernica (TH) and William of Rubruck’s Itinerarium […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/04/10/looking-east-and-west-the-reception-and-dissemination-of-the-topographia-hibernica-and-the-itinerarium-ad-partes-orientales-in-england-1185-c-1500-2/feed/ 0 England against the Celtic fringe : a study in cultural stereotypes http://www.medievalists.net/2009/02/21/england-against-the-celtic-fringe-a-study-in-cultural-stereotypes/ http://www.medievalists.net/2009/02/21/england-against-the-celtic-fringe-a-study-in-cultural-stereotypes/#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:05:09 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=2223 The clash of cultures has often been portrayed historically as the struggle of 'civilization' with 'barbarism'. Such a chararcterization of their relationship was immensely satisfying to advocates of the dominant life-style, who thereby assured themselves of their own superiority and of the desirability of the conqust or conversion of their rivals.

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